Graduate Program

The University of Chicago offers two graduate programs in Theater and Performance Studies: a joint PhD in TAPS and the TAPS program option in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH).

The PhD program in Theater and Performance Studies is designed as an innovative joint degree program that affords students rigorous and comparative work across two disciplines. Students cannot receive a stand-alone PhD in TAPS; rather they enter through one of our partnering departments and pursue their degree jointly with that other discipline. Each of our partnering departments has notable faculty strengths in theater and performance studies, and each is committed to supporting challenging work that cuts across conventional departmental boundaries. To date, our partnering departments are:

The TAPS program option in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) is ideally suited to students who seek an intensive immersion in the field of theater and performance studies at the graduate level. It is designed to take advantage of the vitality and rigor of the MAPH program, while capitalizing on the university’s faculty strengths in theater and performance studies and the culture of collaboration between the TAPS program and Chicago's professional theater and performance communities.